71. In part, this is a story of small farms versus agribusiness, and nature versus science. 72. In the southern tip of Norway, just north of Kristiansand, I was staying on a small chicken farm with a family distantly related to my own. 73. Increasingly, small farms are having to either become very diverse or very specialized to stay alive. 74. It could make a difference, though, for some small farms. 75. It is green and damp and sprinkled with small farms. 76. It adds up to a small family farm, which somehow seems right for this California house. 77. Its small farms bear little relationship to the vast spreads of the Middle West, South and Far West. 78. Most of the menus I saw cited Green City Market, a three-year-old enterprise founded partly by local chefs to sustain small farms. 79. Most weekends Lucille took the children to visit her mother, who lived on a small farm outside town. 80. Mildred Council picked cotton as a little girl, helping her family scratch out a living on their small farm. |